Comments on: Building a Community? Check Out These 5 Platforms

By: Nico

Nico — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:48:42 +0000

Facebook might be the better platform to have a group, but few people realize that all Facebook groups belong to Facebook. Furthermore, they have ownership which means not only access to your members, but they can prevent you from moving your group or even censor your members since they are the owners. So I declined and went elsewhere.

By: David Frosdick

David Frosdick — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 22:20:00 +0000

In reply to dailyprofit. Glad you liked it!

By: dailyprofit

dailyprofit — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 20:51:00 +0000

I never knew I have a great resource center like here….I have been struggling all this while. thanks for the eye opening post

By: Baggio Wong

Baggio Wong — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:24:00 +0000

In reply to David Frosdick.

I didn’t know about threaded discussions – will have to check in later again.

I don’t know what algorithms they implement specifically, but I’m quite sure that given the current state of the software field, it’s possible to predict, with a high level of accuracy, whether a post is valuable or not – it’s just a matter of implementing them, and seeing that such a trivial feature makes no difference to Facebook’s revenue stream, it’s no surprise it’s not on top of their priority lists! 🙂 Maybe one day, we’ll see improvements.

By: David Frosdick

David Frosdick — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:03:00 +0000

In reply to Baggio Wong.

Those are valid points. Slack does offer threaded discussions now. You can also star any messages you want to look back on.

I see some excellent Facebook posts that do actually get lost in groups because of that “well designed algorithm”. Just because they don’t have lots of comments they get pushed down the group and never seen.

By: Baggio Wong

Baggio Wong — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:48:00 +0000

Based on what I’ve seen – as a participant (past or present) of Slack, a Facebook Group, a Reddit subthread, I’m a bit opposed to use a chat app like Slack to build a community, because you’ll get so many voices talking everything gets lost – it’s hard to keep up with who’s talking to who, and having hundreds, or even thousands of PM’s isn’t really ideal either.

Facebook Groups work the best, I think. You can really take the time to read what everyone says, and focus on giving back something that’s useful in a very personal way, and people feel that their voices are heard. Facebook also sorts through the announcements to alert you of the most important ones, which I assume are based on some well designed algorithm, so I’ve been very happy as a participant of two private Facebook groups.